Annotation:Mrs. Muir of Caldwall’s Strathspey

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MRS. MUIR OF CALDWELL. AKA - "Mrs. Mure of Caldwell." Scottish, Strathspey. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB (Gow): AABB' (Athole). Caldwell [1], east Renfrewshire, is a mansion and old estate with the remains of a castle nearby that was in the Muir (sometimes More, Mure, etc.) family for over 500 years (until 1909). It was rebuilt in the 18th century by famed architect Robert Adam.

Caldwell House in the 1870's.

Scots painter Alan Ramsay produced a portrait of one Mrs. Muir of Caldwell.

Mrs. Muir of Caldwell, by Alan Ramsay



Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Aird (Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs, vol. 4), 1796; No. 182, p. 68. Carlin (The Gow Collection), 1986; No. 189. Gow (Third Collection of Niel Gow’s Reels), 1792; p. 7 (3rd ed.). Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 119.

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